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SUMMARY:Registration & Breakfast
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CATEGORIES:NETWORKING & REFRESHMENT
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Welcome & Opening Remarks
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LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Collective Stories: An experimental group creation lab for disaster contexts
DESCRIPTION:A strength the arts bring to disaster preparedness and recovery is their ability to incorporate narrative and storytelling. Much of emergency preparedness education\, disaster reporting\, and support for survivors is fact-based\, dry and didactic\, hiding the human experiences and costs of these disasters. But how do we build collective narratives that tell a more complete story? What participatory story-building tools do we have as artists? How do we build shared stories in diverse communities with very different lived experiences? \n\n\nJoin a group of artists sharing practices for generating collective stories. Together we will explore our tools for creating narrative together\, to inform our preparedness and recovery work in our communities. This is an experiential and experimental lab\, where we will explore movement and storytelling methodologies from a variety of pedagogies to develop practices for working with groups new to storytelling. We will try out material creation methods that can\nbe used to shape performances\, and methods of connecting and processing that can be used in any group setting from conferences to classrooms. Join us to experiment with new tools\, discuss a variety of modalities for generating creative material\, and discover new strategies for building shared stories. Bring your own tools and exercises to add to the mix\, and work with our group of artists\, first responders\, facilitators and emergency preparedness specialists to test out some of ours. Our group has experience facilitating story and performance workshops with artists\, first responders and emergency management professionals - and we know that each process is one of experimentation and learning. \n\n\nCome experiment together with strategies that might fit your audiences and creative teams\, and leave with new tools to use in your own community to prepare for\, process\, and heal from emergencies and disasters.
CATEGORIES:CREATIVE PRACTICE LAB
LOCATION:330C\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Gathering the Story: Story Circles as a Tool for Community Connection\, Preparedness & Recovery
DESCRIPTION:This workshop gives arts practitioners firsthand experience with story circles\, practical facilitation training\, and tools to use the methodology responsibly in disaster recovery and community healing contexts.\n\n\nSome of the most important knowledge a community holds about disaster (i.e.\, what it felt like\, what broke down\, what held) never makes it into official reports or planning documents. It lives in people's memories and in the stories they tell each other. Story circles are a structured methodology for gathering and honoring exactly that kind of knowledge.\nRooted in the tradition developed by Junebug Productions and later adapted and popularized by Roadside Theater in Appalachia\, story circles bring people together around a shared prompt\, offering each participant equal time and equal footing to speak from personal experience. No one is an expert. No one is a subject. Everyone is a witness. In communities that have experienced disaster\, that quality of mutual witnessing\, of not being alone with hard things\, may matter as much as any planning outcome the methodology could produce.\n\n\nThis half day workshop moves through four phases. We introduce the story circle methodology\, its origins\, and its ground rules. Participants then experience a story circle firsthand. From there\, we open a collaborative conversation about where story circles might fit in disaster contexts\, whether as a community engagement or planning tool\, as part of recovery\, or simply as a way of rebuilding the social fabric that disasters fray. We give serious attention to the ethical dimensions of this work. When people are still living with grief or trauma\, a methodology designed to open deep sharing carries real risk. For example\, stories can go darker than anticipated\, people may share more than they later wish they had\, and facilitators may find themselves holding more than they are equipped to handle.\n\n\nThese are not hypothetical concerns\, and this workshop treats them as central\, not as fine print. Participants will receive hands-on facilitation training and take home a set of handouts designed to support them in planning and leading story circles in their own communities and organizations. They will leave with firsthand experience of the methodology\, practical facilitation skills and resources\, a grounded sense of its possibilities and limits\, and a more honest set of questions about if\, when\, and how to use it responsibly.
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON-WORKSHOP
LOCATION:330E\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Building and Sustaining Cultural Disaster Response Networks
DESCRIPTION:Designed as a half-day networking and training session\, this workshop focuses on strengthening arts and cultural response networks by examining shared best practices in network design\, governance\, and operations. \n\n\nOpen to those who help coordinate a city\, regional\, or state-level arts or cultural response network\, the session creates a dedicated space for peer-to-peer learning and mentoring\, with knowledge exchange across networks at their varied stages of development.\n\n\nCurrently\, through the work of the Alliance for Response and the Performing Arts Readiness project\, approximately 40-50 response networks for arts and cultural heritage exist across the United States (American Institute for Conservation 2025\; LYRASIS 2026). As these networks continue to evolve and serve their communities\, there is a need to understand how they operate - and might operate and collaborate more effectively - across different geographic locations\, jurisdictions\, and populations. \n\n\nIn light of this need\, this workshop has been designed for networking\, sharing\, and training\, as follows:\n\n\nOpening Presentations by Christie Cain\, Emergency Programs Manager with the Alliance for Response (AfR) and Tom Clareson\, former Director of the Performing Arts Readiness Project (PAR)\, to outline the origins of arts and cultural response networks and recent impacts. Followed by Mollie Quinlan-Hayes to discuss the National Coalition for Arts Preparedness and Emergency Response's (NCAPER) current programs supporting response networks. 2.Roundtable Peer-to-Peer Learning: small-group discussions\, divided by response network size and scope\, to discuss current strengths and challenges.Sustainability Panel Discussion: moderated by Christie Cain with the Alliance for Response\, with a panel of current network members\, with questions around open versus paid participation\, governance categories\, cross-disciplinary involvement\, and networks’ ability to accept and manage funds.Focused Network Training Activity\, led by National Heritage Responder Annie Rubel.
CATEGORIES:PEER LEARNING COHORT
LOCATION:375\, Gatton Student Center
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SUMMARY:Move to Connect: Creative Movement for Community Connection
DESCRIPTION:This pre-conference workshop introduces Move to Connect\, a research-informed\, arts-based intervention designed to\nstrengthen social connection and support mental well-being in community settings\, particularly in the context of disruption and recovery. Grounded in a 2023 pilot study integrating creative movement with Social Network Analysis (SNA)\, and supported by a newly developed program in collaboration with Cooperative Extension\, this initiative demonstrates how embodied\, arts-based practices can build trust\, reduce isolation\, and activate relational networks that serve as critical care infrastructure during times of crisis.\n\n\nDesigned as a train-the-trainer model\, this session equips participants with the skills\, tools\, and confidence to implement and teach movement-based connection practices within their own communities. Developed through interdisciplinary collaboration\, the curriculum translates an eight-session intervention into adaptable modules suitable for extension professionals\, community leaders\, and cultural workers across diverse contexts. The workshop places particular emphasis on one core session\, guiding participants through a structured process that integrates journaling\, facilitated discussion\, collaborative movement-making\, and informal performance. \n\n\nThis sequence models how creative practice can support reflection\, storytelling\, and collective meaning-making key components of trauma-informed and resilience-focused work. Participants will actively engage in these practices\, gaining firsthand experience in leading others through similar processes.\n\n\nIn addition to experiential learning\, the session highlights best practices in trauma-informed facilitation\, inclusive engagement\, and ethical community-based work. Attendees will explore a variety of resources\, including lesson plans\, facilitator guides\, evaluation tools\, and multimedia training materials designed to support both program delivery and replication.\n\n\nThe workshop concludes with a facilitated discussion and Q&A focused on adaptation\, scalability\, and integration into\nemergency preparedness and recovery efforts. Participants will leave with practical\, evidence-based strategies and ready-to-use materials to foster connection\, care\, and resilience through the arts in their own communities.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:231\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Networking
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CATEGORIES:NETWORKING & REFRESHMENT
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion: AFTA Incubator Three-Month Convening
DESCRIPTION:In June\, 2026\, the Americans for the Arts AFTACON conference in Albuquerque featured\, as one of its nine pathways for participants\, “Readiness\, Response and Community Care.” A full-day Incubator immersed local arts agency leaders\, arts advocates and artists in conversation\, hands-on learning and networking. The final component of the day was the offer/challenge for each participant to make a commitment to not just networking\, but organizing\, recognizing that care and preparedness require structure\, not just goodwill.&nbsp\;\n\nThis roundtable\, co-hosted by AFTA and NCAPER\, is&nbsp\;part of the 3-month post organizing for action infrastructure for AFTA Pathway Attendees\, and anyone who would like to be part of this conversation! Also\, sign up for the AFTACON Readiness\, Response and Community Care Email Network here:&nbsp\;https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJXVm0AHE7WtDt6fFD8SQbe5aI_RFKDgGH-uRxQctjTbcoeQ/viewform?pli=1&pli=1\n
CATEGORIES:ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Arts in Disaster: Shaping Tools to Support Community Connection and Wellbeing
DESCRIPTION:This workshop gives arts practitioners firsthand experience with story circles\, practical facilitation training\, and tools to use the methodology responsibly in disaster recovery and community healing contexts.\n\n\nThe arts are increasingly recognized for their role in disaster readiness\, response\, and recovery. Beyond economic recovery and tourism\, arts and cultural programming can support social and emotional wellbeing by bringing people together and offering ways to express experiences that are difficult to put into words. They can also create space to share stories\, honor loss\, and reconnect with cultural identity and community strengths. In recent years\, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has expanded its disaster work through community-based projects\, cross-sector partnerships\, and the development of a practical toolkit. Created with Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network\, the toolkit draws on over a decade of trauma-informed work with military-connected populations and the experience of community leaders across the field.\n\n\nThis hands-on workshop introduces core concepts from the toolkit\, including the role of the arts across different phases of disaster\, principles for offering arts experiences in ways that support wellbeing\, and approaches to building partnerships across sectors. Participants will explore how the purpose and structure of arts engagement can shift over time and how to align activities with the needs and realities of different stages of disaster. They will also explore how to create supportive environments\, recognize different responses to stress\, and maintain boundaries while continuing to attend to their own needs and capacity.\n\n\nThe workshop will also address how to communicate the value of this work to partners outside the arts sector and how to position arts and cultural efforts within broader community systems. Participants will consider how to work alongside existing services\, contribute to shared goals\, and build relationships that support coordinated and sustainable efforts.\nThrough discussion\, examples\, and applied reflection\, participants will explore how to apply the toolkit’s concepts in\ntheir own communities. Case examples will show how arts and cultural approaches can be adapted across contexts and integrated into coordinated\, community-centered disaster efforts\, with attention to both immediate needs and longer-term community wellbeing.
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON-WORKSHOP
LOCATION:330E\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Resource Mapping Forum for Arts and Cultural Response Networks
DESCRIPTION:This forum is designed as an invited\, in-person gathering to bring together national leaders in cultural response with leaders of arts and cultural response networks to discuss the formation\, management\, and sustainability of cultural response mapping tools that help identify and communicate disaster impacts on cultural heritage sites across their service areas.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;These maps address a critical need for US federal\, state\, and local jurisdictions by providing a centralized reporting mechanism to track losses of arts and cultural heritage from disasters\, as well as a support infrastructure to advocate for disaster resources for arts\, cultural\, and creative assets.&nbsp\;\n \nParticipants will complete a pre-survey in July 2026 to help document the purpose\, functions\, partners\, platforms\, and maintenance practices of current mapping efforts. The forum’s facilitators will use the findings from this initial survey to identify cross-network patterns and key points of divergence\, which will then be discussed at the forum to help frame the convening's shared purpose and outcomes.\n\nThe facilitators for the forum will include representatives from leading national agencies in arts and cultural response networks: the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC)’s Alliance for Response\, the Smithsonian’s Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI)\,&nbsp\;the National Coalition for Arts Preparedness and Emergency Response (NCAPER)\, and the Performing Arts Readiness Project (2017-2025). The University of Kentucky’s Arts Emergency and Disaster Research Initiative (AEDRI) will assist with research efforts before and during the convening in data collection\, analysis\, and outcomes.\n\nThe forum’s agenda includes a full-group discussion of the survey’s findings\, roundtables to support knowledge exchange among networks on mapping efforts\, and a culminating discussion of mapping patterns\, emerging principles\, and best practices. Outcomes of the forum will include a formal white paper and future working groups for networks to continue building on mapping efforts.
CATEGORIES:PEER LEARNING COHORT
LOCATION:330C\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Building Social Connection Through Participatory Arts: A Train-the-Trainer Workshop to Strengthen Organizational Well-Being
DESCRIPTION:This train-the-trainer workshop introduces participatory arts practices that strengthen social capital\, connection and\norganizational well-being. Participants will learn how to facilitate accessible arts-based experiences that help build caring relationships and community within organizations. Arts-based experiences can help organizations strengthen the relational conditions that support well-being\, collaboration\, and community connection\, especially in environments experiencing stress or rapid change. \n\n\nThis train-the-trainer workshop introduces the Arts for Well-Being (AWiAM) framework\, a participatory arts approach originally developed within academic medicine to strengthen social capital\, connection\, and organizational well-being. Complex workplaces and communities are shaped not only by systems and structures\, but also by the quality of the human relationships that exist within them. Everyday interactions—how people listen\, respond\, offer support\, and collaborate—gradually build social capital: the trust\, familiarity\, and relational strength that allow individuals and teams to work effectively together. Participatory arts practices create accessible opportunities for individuals to pause\, reflect\, and engage with one another in ways that make relationship-building visible within everyday\nenvironments. These experiences are intentionally designed to support individual wellness while strengthening a community of honor and connection\, an essential component of organizational well-being.\n\n\nDuring the workshop\, participants will experience a series of arts-based practices that use visual exploration\, creative reflection\, storytelling\, movement\, and engagement with shared spaces to support dialogue and connection. These activities do not require artistic training or prior facilitation experience. Instead\, participatory arts are used as tools to support communication\, perspective-taking\, and relational awareness. The session will also introduce a set of caring behaviors that help participants reflect on how everyday interactions influence trust\, collaboration\, and support within organizations and communities. Participants will explore how these behaviors surface through shared creative experiences and how they can be intentionally cultivated through facilitated dialogue.\n\n\nIn addition to participating in these experiences\, attendees will learn facilitation strategies\, reflection prompts\, and practical considerations for implementing arts-based engagement practices within their own organizations or community contexts. By the end of the workshop\, participants will leave with a replicable model and practical tools for integrating participatory arts experiences that strengthen relationships\, build social capital\, support well-being\, and help cultivate cultures of care and collaboration.
CATEGORIES:TRAIN-THE-TRAINER WORKSHOP
LOCATION:231\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Many Hands: A tabletop practice session for arts and disaster response
DESCRIPTION:Join disaster preparedness professionals\, arts organizations\, and individuals in a tabletop exercise for hands-on practice identifying and utilizing your resources to help your community in times of disaster.\n\n\nArtists and arts organizations possess key elements that make them vital resources in times of disaster: they are deeply embedded in their communities\, have intimate knowledge of local culture\, and have access to concrete skills and resources. However\, our emergency preparedness ecosystem often leaves arts organizations out when planning for large-scale emergencies. \n\n\nFacilitated by emergency preparedness professionals\, first responders\, and artists\, this hands-on tabletop exercise will use disaster preparedness tools to prepare artists to be a resource in emergency response. Come to this session to connect with makers\, arts organizations and disaster responders. Together\, we will use a nationally- utilized disaster preparedness model to rehearse possible responses to disasters hitting our communities. \n\n\nWe will walk through a disaster scenario using props\, maps and interactive discussion\, finding opportunities for you and your collaborators to support emergency response and recovery. We will practice discovering community needs\, identifying our resources\, and putting them to use in concrete ways that support our communities. This “rehearsal for life” will give you experience in problem-solving and co-creating responses to elements such as washed-out roads\, disabled cell phone networks\, displaced individuals\, and overwhelmed hospitals. Join us to brainstorm how you and your community can come together to pool resources\, solve problems\, and work through conflict. Whether you’re an individual artist\, part of an arts organization\, or part of another type of community group\, your experience from this session will increase your preparedness for disasters.\n\n\nTry on an emergency scenario with us\, test out strategies\, stretch your creative-thinking muscles\, and leave with ideas to take home to your community.
CATEGORIES:HANDS-ON-WORKSHOP
LOCATION:375\, Gatton Student Center
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SUMMARY:Networking & Refreshment Break
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CATEGORIES:NETWORKING & REFRESHMENT
LOCATION:330AB\, Gatton Student Center
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SUMMARY:Meaning through Making: Using Collage to Bring Order from Chaos After Disaster
DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores how collage can help individuals make meaning from tragedy through the use of accessible creative practices that bring order from chaotic experiences and build agency and connection in the wake of disaster.\n\n\nIn the aftermath of disaster\, grief often feels fragmented—disrupting memory\, identity\, and a sense of stability. \n\n\nThis workshop explores how expressive and accessible arts\, and especially collage\, can support meaning-making by helping individuals and communities transform chaos into coherence. Grounded in the concept of meaning-making articulated by David Kessler's proposed "6th Stage" of the grieving process\, this session positions creative expression as a vital tool for navigating loss and rebuilding connection.\n\n\nThe presentation will begin by introducing participants to key concepts in grief and trauma\, including how disasters impact emotional and cognitive processing. The presentation will highlight why collage is uniquely suited to this work: the use of fragments mirrors the experience of trauma\, while the act of assembling images fosters integration\, agency\, and reflection. Participants will also be introduced to practical considerations for facilitating this work in their own contexts.\n\n\nThe remaining time will be dedicated to a guided\, hands-on collage-making experience. Participants will engage with a\nvariety of materials—magazines\, paper\, fabric\, photographs\, and found items—to make their own meaning from pieces of visual “scrap.” Emphasis will be placed on process over product\, with a focus on intuitive selection and personal symbolism. No prior artistic experience is required. Participants will leave with both a collage and a deeper understanding of how creative practices can support healing and meaning-making after disaster.\n\n\nThis workshop is ideal for those seeking adaptable tools to support emotional recovery and resilience in the communities they serve.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:Brockman Senate Chamber (2nd floor)\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Registration & Continental Breakfast
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CATEGORIES:NETWORKING & REFRESHMENT
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Welcome & Opening Remarks
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LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Power of Art: Community Based Art Therapy After Gun Violence
DESCRIPTION:This session explores the design\, implementation\, and evaluation of a community-based art therapy initiative that emerged in the immediate aftermath of a school shooting and evolved into a sustained\, two-year program supporting community healing. Initially conceived as a short-term\, open studio experience housed within a museum\, the program offered accessible\, dropin art therapy support to a wide cross-section of the community during the earliest days of collective grief and disruption. As community needs became more apparent\, the initiative expanded beyond its original scope—transitioning into ongoing\, weekly art therapy groups that provided continuity\, structure\, and relational support over time. \n\n\nThe program’s impact and resonance led to its selection for funding through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayor’s Public Art Challenge\, enabling the integration of community-informed public art projects. These projects both reflected and extended the therapeutic work of the groups\, creating visible\, shared expressions of meaning-making and connection within the broader community. Over the course of the program\, the onset of COVID-19 introduced new challenges and layers of stress. Participants described drawing upon skills\, insights\, and relationships developed through the art therapy groups to navigate the uncertainties of the pandemic. The public art components also served as touchpoints for continued engagement and coping during periods of isolation. \n\n\nThis session will examine key considerations in designing responsive\, community-centered art therapy programming in the context of crisis\, including how to balance immediacy with&nbsp\;sustainability and how programs can evolve in alignment with emerging needs. It will also highlight implementation lessons related to group cohesion\, accessibility\, and partnership with community institutions. Finally\, the presenters—an art therapist and qualitative researcher\, and a program evaluation expert—will share findings from the program’s evaluation\, offering insights into participant experiences\, perceived impacts\, and the role of art therapy in fostering individual and collective healing over time. Participants will leave with practical considerations for adapting and evaluating similar initiatives in their own communities.
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Networking & Refreshment Break
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CATEGORIES:NETWORKING & REFRESHMENT
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:The Art of Paying it Forward
DESCRIPTION:A tornado cut a devastating path through the heart of Mayfield\, Kentucky in December 2021. Residents experienced a painful collective trauma\, with much of the historic downtown destroyed and few landmarks or spaces remaining where people could connect and gather. The slow\, patient work of recovery in this close-knit community began with the Mayfield Rebuilds Committee\, culminating in a final report published in December 2022. The report identified more than twenty projects. Throughout\, the community sought to integrate arts and culture into their plans to rebuild\, including:\n Maker’s space: support creative crafts and hobbyists Large urban park: host therapeutic activities for residents\, integrate art exhibits\, and include museum commemorating community resilience Farmer’s Market: create space for community gathering and showcase locally grown and made goods Downtown ‘districts’: enhance community identity\, encourage better design of the public realm\, and improve quality of life\n\nThis bold vision built a strong foundation for the community to move forward. The arts have played an important role and continue to shape how Mayfield heals\, recovers\, and celebrates its identity. Community design efforts\, led by professionals and envisioned by students\, provided a promise of what was to come and helped the community prioritize and make progress towards their goals. Benefit events\, both small and large\, helped boost morale at critical points after the storm and provided critical financial infusions. Vision became reality with the grand opening of the Farmer’s Market in summer 2025. It has become a much-needed gathering space celebrating local agricultural and creative bounties. Helen LaFrance’s famous mural at St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church was saved and preserved\, and a new mural was recently completed and dedicated to her and fellow African American artist Ellis Wilson at Dunbar Park. When communities experience significant loss\, people hold on to things that give them a sense of collective identity. The arts provide a way to rally around a common cause\, helping rebuild that shared identity\, stitching back together what was lost.\n\n\nNearly five years into the recovery effort\, Mayfield has valuable lessons to share:\n Document and celebrate what gives your community a collective sense of identity. Make plans for the worst-case scenario and how you can protect and preserve these resources if disaster strikes. Identify places and spaces your community can gather. See the arts—in all forms ranging from visual\, performing\, and literature to design—as a way to help your community connect\, gather\, heal\, and visualize what is possible. Learn to accept support from other communities. There will be chances for you to pay this generosity and compassion forward.
CATEGORIES:PANEL DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Brockman Senate Chamber (2nd floor)\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:ArtShine: Illuminating the Healing Potential of the Arts
DESCRIPTION:1. Executive Summary\nIn July 2022\, a century-defining flood devastated Perry\, Letcher\, Knott\, and Leslie counties. Amidst this loss\, the ArtShine Project was born as a rapid-response creative intervention. This presentation details the journey from a modest goal of 100 "ArtShine Boxes" to a multi-state movement (ArtShine 2.0 and 3.0) that proves art is an essential service in times of crisis.\n\n\n2. The Origin Story: "A Light in the Dark"\nThe presentation will highlight the collaborative effort that launched the initiative: \nThe Founders: Developed by Lindsey Branson (Director of Education) and local artist/musician Jen Tackett. \nThe Rapid Scale: How an initial goal of 100 boxes escalated to 500 boxes created and distributed within a single week. The Message: Every box carries the vital reminder: "You are Loved."\n\n\n3. Presentation Pillars & Key Content\nSegment -&gt\; Focus Area -&gt\;Key Highlights The Immediate Need -&gt\; Disaster Response -&gt\;Replacing lost crayons\, watercolor sets\, and rhythm instruments for children who lost everything.\nThe ArtShine Box -&gt\;Anatomy of a Kit -&gt\;A look inside the bags: Acrylic paint pots\, oil pastels\, and sketchbooks as tools for emotional processing.\nRegional Impact -&gt\; "Where We Serve" -&gt\; Mapping the reach across Perry\, Knott\, Letcher\, Leslie\, Pike\, and Floyd counties.\nThe Evolution -&gt\;2.0 & 3.0 -&gt\;How the model moved beyond KY\nto help victims of Hurricane Helene and continued local challenges.\n\n\n4. Visual & Tangible Assets\nThe "ArtShine Gallery": A visual showcase of the white boxes labeled "You are Loved" and photos of the volunteer-led\nassembly lines at the Art Station. \nSupply Spotlight: A "Needs List" slide showing how simple items (crayons\, markers\, rhythm instruments) translate into therapeutic tools. \nVolunteer Impact: Footage of the "ArtShine 2.0" mobilization\,\nshowing the Appalachian spirit of "paying it forward" to neighboring states.\n\n\n5. Call to Action: Sustaining the Shine\nThe presentation concludes with a roadmap for future readiness: \nThe Amazon Wishlist Model: How digital crowdsourcing fuels local relief.\nDirect Support: Encouraging sponsorship of the ArtStation to keep inventory ready for the next "ArtShine" deployment.\nClosing Statement: "The ArtShine mission is to illuminate the healing potential of the arts during our community’s most\nchallenging times."
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:330D\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:A Guided Tour of Readiness\, Response\, and Recovery Resources: Navigate the landscape of support for artists and arts organizations
DESCRIPTION:Step aboard for a guided tour of the ever-growing world of resources for artists\, small arts organizations\, and those who support them. \n\n\nFirst stop: What defines an emergency\, a crisis\, or a disaster?\n\n\nNext: The Anatomy of an Emergency\, and how understanding the cycle prepares you to avoid fight/flight/freeze\nand act with intention and clarity. \n\n\nThe tour continues through the landscape of information hubs\, financial assistance\, networks\, guides\, and publications that exist – your guide will share which are most useful at different stages of mitigation\, readiness\, response\, and recovery. \n\n\nAlong the way\, your guides will point out both national and local resources\, share insider tips on what’s most practical\, and help you chart a path through the. sometimes confusing emergency management “word soup.” \n\n\nBy the end of the tour\, you’ll know where to go for help\, how to access it quickly\, and how to help others find their way too.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:375\, Gatton Student Center
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/57fdce6894f01ba318ccca54142b031f
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SUMMARY:Legacy Planning and Archiving for the Active Artist: What you’ve created merits preservation
DESCRIPTION:Whether you’re early in your career\, have an established practice\, or are looking towards retirement\, you can - and should - take steps to record\, safely store\, and preserve your material records and data. Knowing that your artistic\, business and programmatic history is centralized and stored in multiple formats provides peace of mind\, and also ensures that your legacy will last. If you work in a company or collective of artists\, succession planning is also critical to sustain the work through the loss of a leader. \n\n\nThis workshop will share best practices and tools for inventorying your work\, data management\, identifying key documents and materials\, and then safely protecting them from damage or loss will be addressed.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:330C\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Safeguarding Community Celebrations: Lessons from Greenup County’s Between Two Rivers Arts & Preparedness Project
DESCRIPTION:Community celebrations such as festivals\, concerts\, and farmers markets are central to local identity and local economies\, yet many are planned by small teams with limited time\, training\, or direct relationships with emergency management. This session shares lessons learned from an NEA-funded arts and preparedness project in Greenup County\, Kentucky\, focused on strengthening event safety through practical planning tools and cross-sector partnerships. The project began by building relationships with Greenup County Emergency Management and the Local Emergency Planning Committee\, then expanding the conversation to tourism leaders\, event organizers\, Extension\, and arts partners. A key milestone was the Safeguarding Community Celebrations workshop\, which brought together 21 participants\, including local and regional tourism and event directors. The session combined a cross-sector panel\, a Mobile Command Unit tour\, a hands-on working session using a preparedness workbook\, and\nan on-site walkthrough and debrief. Through these activities\, participants identified both large-scale and site-level risks at the Greenup County Farmers Market\, including proximity to a chemical plant\, an active rail line\, and the river\, along with more immediate concerns such as unclear signage\, uneven terrain\, and pedestrian-vehicle conflict points. These findings informed both local planning conversations and a phased hazard mitigation design approach focused on improving circulation\, visibility\, and safety without disrupting regular market operations. \n\n\nThe session will highlight the development and field testing of the Safeguarding Community Celebrations workbook\, which is already being used locally and revised based on user feedback for broader statewide release. More importantly\, it will focus on the process behind the tool: how to start relationships with emergency management\, how to facilitate risk-based conversations with community partners\, and how to translate those discussions into practical next steps. Participants will leave with strategies for identifying risks in their own event spaces\, building stronger cross-sector partnerships\, and using adaptable tools to support safer\, more resilient community celebrations. The session is designed for arts administrators\, festival organizers\, Extension professionals\, tourism staff\, and emergency managers seeking realistic\, scalable approaches to preparedness.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:330E\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:The Healing Power of Dance
DESCRIPTION:Dance facilitates the physical expression of internal emotions while improving well-being and fostering social connections in times of crisis. Attendees will be equipped to lead a movement class for individuals of all ages and abilities.\n\n\nThe arts play a critical role in times of crisis by bringing people together to reflect\, heal\, and process grief and trauma.\nResearch has proven the physical and mental health benefits of dance\, including improving cardiovascular function\, releasing endorphins\, and increasing self-esteem – to just name a few (American Public Health Association 2024)\, yet there is a growing body of research that proves the effectiveness of movement and dance in crisis settings (Trauma Research Foundation 2023). When people are unable to verbally articulate their internal emotions\, dance offers an outlet for them to express their innermost feelings when words fall short. As described by Ruth St. Denis\, a modern dance pioneer in the early twentieth century\, “I see dance being used as communication between body and soul\, to express what is too deep to find for words.” In other words\, dance can be utilized to facilitate the physical expression of internal emotions while improving overall well-being and fostering social connections with others in times of crisis.\n\n\nIn this session\, attendees will participate in an entry-level creative movement class designed for children and adults of all ages and abilities. Additionally\, attendees will learn a variety of movement strategies and exercises\, including a simple warm-up\, movement dialogues\, and movement journeys – all of which will equip participants with the knowledge\, tools\, and resources needed to replicate the class in their own communities during times of crisis. \n\n\nUnlike traditional dance classes\, participants will not learn choreography or specific dance techniques\, such as ballet\, jazz\, or ballroom dance. Instead\, attendees will follow a series of guided prompts designed to help find ways to express emotions in a safe\, nurturing environment while creating a sense of community with fellow participants. The session will also explore ways to modify the class for variety of settings\, such as school gymnasiums\, grassy areas in a park\, conference rooms\, and even a church basement. No previous dance experience is necessary.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:231\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:From Comic Book Inker to Crisis Leader
DESCRIPTION:Career paths are rarely linear. Mine certainly was not. Before coordinating multi-county disaster operations as a\nregional emergency management director\, I trained as a visual artist. I studied art in Italy\, worked as a comic book inker\, and learned to think in panels\, composition\, pacing\, and negative space. Today\, I work in a field often perceived as procedural and bureaucratic—yet I rely daily on skills first developed through artistic practice.\n\n\nThis session explores the unexpected connection between creative training and crisis leadership. In comic illustration\, an inker brings clarity to complexity. Structure gives shape to chaos. Composition controls focus. Timing shapes narrative tension. These same principles apply in disaster coordination. Incident Command is a framework that provides form under pressure. Field responders bring skill and discipline\, but leadership requires understanding flow\,\nperspective\, balance\, and the human impact behind every decision.\n\n\nBeyond logistics\, disaster response is deeply human work. It involves emotional weight\, moral ambiguity\, and the responsibility to stabilize trust when communities are vulnerable. Art education does not just teach technique\; it teaches observation\, interpretation\, restraint\, and empathy. It teaches how to see. This presentation reflects on how creative training prepared me to navigate ambiguity\, communicate under stress\, and lead within structured systems. It also challenges the assumption that artistic careers and public safety careers exist in separate worlds.\n\n\nFor students and emerging professionals\, this session offers a broader message: the skills developed through creative practice—composition\, improvisation\, narrative awareness\, and disciplined execution—are not confined to studios or galleries. They are transferable\, powerful\, and urgently relevant in complex\, real-world environments. Resilience is built not only by infrastructure and policy\, but by leaders who can see clearly\, adapt creatively\, and hold steady when the lines are not yet fully drawn.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:330D\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/39f10e2a1bc7dd9819c81672069dd874
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SUMMARY:Networking & Refreshment Break
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CATEGORIES:NETWORKING & REFRESHMENT
LOCATION:330AB\, Gatton Student Center
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SUMMARY:Revealing Our Fragile Future: How Architecture Can Make Climate Vulnerability Visible
DESCRIPTION:This panel discussion highlights the work of Architecture Sarasota\, an organization dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Sarasota School of Architecture in Southwest Florida and their collaboration with the National Park Service. After a series of storms impacted architectural significant properties in 2024\, the organization began documenting and evaluating climate vulnerabilities. One novel aspect of this work was the creation of an exhibition to educate and engage the public on significance\, risk\, and potential adaptation. Historic sites and cultural landscapes serve as early indicators of environmental stress. Creative practitioners are redefining preservation and emergency response by pairing tradition with adaptive solutions. \n\n\nArchitecture Sarasota has been at the forefront of this effort. They have been documenting at risk heritage\, elevating community memory\, and demonstrating how legacy architecture can evolve rather than vanish. Responding to the combined storms of Hurricanes Debby\, Helene and Milton in 2024\, the organization in collaboration with the NPS’s National Center for Preservation Technology and Training\, and state and local partners\, developed a model approach that integrated cultural resources survey and vulnerability assessment. Under the National Disaster Recovery Framework\, the Department of the Interior assisted in identifying this project as part of Florida's disaster recovery plan as an important step in understanding the risks and unmet needs for architectural resources in damaged areas throughout the state. In addition to reports and recommendations\, the work included the creation of a climate vulnerability exhibition to engage the public. The art exhibit featured historic sites and proposed solutions to give a visual interpretation to the assessment and risk data points. \n\n\nArchitectural Sarasota and the NPS have crafted a unique work product that seeks to frame climate risk not as a distant hazard but as a design problem that invites curiosity\, imagination\, and new forms of collective stewardship.
CATEGORIES:PANEL DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Brockman Senate Chamber (2nd floor)\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Community Identity and the Perception of Post-Hurricane Arts Engagement: A Regional Case Study of Northwest Florida and Coastal Alabama
DESCRIPTION:In order to explore the meaning\, experience\, and perception of art-making in hurricane-impacted communities\, a regional\, qualitative research study was conducted through a series of interviews with a diverse sample of community members from the Northwest Florida and Coastal Alabama area. This study explores the role of visual arts in post-hurricane recovery\, looking specifically at community identity and the landscape of post-hurricane arts engagement. \n\n\nThis 20-minute presentation will present the findings of this research\, with an emphasis on sharing the voices of those impacted by hurricanes in the area. Providing space and opportunity where disaster-impacted people can speak about their experiences is vitally important in supporting long-term recovery. The stories and experiences\nshared can include non-verbal or visual expression\, as found in the creative arts. Engagement with the arts is shaped by\, and supported by\, the community members who comprise an area. This engagement can be particularly beneficial during repeated hurricane impacts\, long recovery times\, and compounding disaster events.\n\n\nParticipants were asked a series of both closed and open-ended interview questions relating to their role and connection to hurricane-impacted areas\, the effect of the storm on their community\, and their specific compounding circumstances in recovery. Questions also explored post-hurricane material culture and the participant’s connection to art-making\, including social arts\, professional arts\, and virtual arts engagement. The participants of this research project found value in each area of arts engagement\, even if it was not an area they typically engaged in. They identified several benefits regarding the use of arts in recovery: the capacity for self-expression\, the ability to give voice to the voiceless or vulnerable\, the ability to create beauty (which in turn may increase industry\, joy\, and wellbeing)\, the ability to create spaces for healing\, as well as promoting empathy and understanding for the experience of hurricane impacts.\n\n\nOverall\, the arts can help to humanize the experience of hurricanes by acknowledging not only the disaster- impacted person with the context of their social and community identity\, but also by centering their voices in recovery\, so that stakeholders and policymakers can know not only about the immediate recovery needs\, but the long term needs as well\, helping to fund programs that provide dignity and empathy to the post-hurricane experience.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:330E\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Disasters\, Data\, and Decision-Making: Finding and Understanding Local Disaster-Related Data
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wondered how many times your county has been included in a major disaster declaration? Have you ever gone online looking for county-level data related to disasters for a grant proposal\, program or planning tool\, or to help your organization understand the importance of community level disaster-related planning and response? \n\n\nThere are multiple data resources available online to assist in understanding and contextualizing local disasters. While each one uses different methods and draws on different data sources\, each resource is intended to identify places with higher or lower levels of vulnerable populations and/or community resilience. Even with these online resources\, navigating the websites and understanding the differences in the data they contain can be challenging. And\, since learning the ins-and-outs of even just one data source or website can be time consuming\, in the end\, these challenges can dissuade people from using the online resources.\n\n\nIntended to fill this void\, Julie Zimmerman and Jeff Young produced a new 3-part data series for the Extension program\nKentucky: By The Numbers. Together\, these provide easy-to-use data related to disasters for every county in the state. The presentation will also include a discussion of changes to the National Risk Index and accessing data through the FEMA Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT) website.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:375\, Gatton Student Center
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SUMMARY:Fostering Dynamic Resilience: Developing & Measuring a Resilient Organization
DESCRIPTION:Arts Organizations across the globe are now faced with consistent threats. These issues span from ecological disasters to cultural shifts\, economic uncertainties\, and technological hazards. And that’s just outside. In addition\, these often struggling companies and nonprofits face a particularly daunting task of not only protecting its often invaluable properties on the premises\, but at times\, protecting intangible assets and the culture of a certain community itself. From outside threats to internal vulnerabilities\, events that cause trauma (collective or otherwise) also impact the interpersonal aspect of our work\, including staff morale and development\, community engagement and partners\, donors\, etc. That is a lot to consider when it comes to preparing for the worst.\n\n\nBut\, it’s not all doom and gloom. With increasing scholarly rigor and practice in the field\, preparedness and resilience is\nbecoming a relevant topic for academics and practitioners alike. This presentation seeks to build on this necessary work and help equip our organizations to not only survive an event of any magnitude\, but be able to consciously thrive and learn\, collectively\, in its aftermath. Together\, we’ll investigate several pathways through which arts organizations can collaborate to build measurable indicators of resilience\, which demands systems engagement and communication (i.e.\, staff to staff\, community partners\, national networks\, grants and funding models\, etc.). Ultimately\, these constructed measures lead to a pragmatic conclusion and/or solution\, which is at once feasible and adaptable for all\nparticipating stakeholders. \n\n\nWe will explore these measures\, review ideations of resilience\, define dynamic resilience and organizational equilibrium as a communal goal\, and proffer a call to action for the arts sector to prepare and equip. It is critical that the arts and culture industry continues to fulfill its collective and singular missions so that when we are in need (and even when we’re not) we have a space to heal\, help\, create\, and evolve together.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:231\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:NCAPER Learning Sprint: Risk Assessment\, Business Continuity\, Navigating Crises and Legacy Planning
DESCRIPTION:NEED UPDATED DESCRIPTION\n\nThis fast-paced sprint session delivers a universal\, need-to-know overview of critical mitigation and preparedness concepts across four essential skills areas.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:330D\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Rampart: Readiness and Legacy Planning for Musicians
DESCRIPTION:In March 2026\, The Ella Project\, an artist service organization based in New Orleans focusing on pro bono legal assistance and arts business development\, premiered its Rampart Guide to Legacy Building and Readiness for Musicians. Written by a team of intellectual property and estate lawyers\, Rampart is designed for the moderate-income musician and/or their heirs to demystify estate planning and to encourage these musicians to organize their catalogues and maximize their royalties in an orderly fashion. Rampart also focuses on preserving electronic records\, protecting the digital afterlife\, working with museums\, and all other aspects essential to preserving a musician’s legacy. This presentation will go into the need for effective planning for musicians\, existing resources nationwide\, and working with artists one on one to preserve their legacy. \n\n\nA one hour workshop presented by Ashlye Keaton and Gene Meneray\, Co-Founders of The Ella Project\, the main portion of this presentation will share strategies to best catalog artists’ intellectual property assets\, protect the use of their name\, image\, and likeness\, work with them on creating discographies and split sheet agreements and discuss artists royalties\, focuses on sound recordings and the multiple rights organizations an artist or their heirs need to engage with to ensure they are maximizing their royalties. This cataloging\, organizing\, and communicating with rights organizations is not work that needs to be done by an attorney\, and is not (for that most part) governed by state law\, so the techniques can be used by musicians and/of their advocates throughout the nation. Participants will leave the workshop with a broader understanding of royalties and the respective rights agenciesthat govern them\, heritability of copyright\, and how artist service organizations can engage artists to take this necessary step to protect their legacy. The Rampart Guide can be viewed and downloaded at https://ellanola.org/rampart
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:330C\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Arts Emergency Management in Higher Education: A New Pedagogy for Resilience
DESCRIPTION:This session will outline the nation's first higher-education pedagogical framework in Arts Emergency Management (AEM)\, designed and implemented by the University of Kentucky's Department of Arts Administration. Examining principles and practices in emergency management comes at a critical moment in arts management education\, as\nthe severity and costs of disaster events are increasing in scale and impacting arts communities (IFRC 2021\; IPCC 2023\; FEMA 2023). It also addresses calls from US arts readiness leaders for a more dedicated emergency management curriculum in arts management higher education programs (Carey and Lakin-\nHayes 2012\; National Endowment for the Arts 2016).\n\n\nSince 2018\, the Department has worked to address current gaps in US arts and cultural management education standards by offering full-semester courses designed to expand knowledge and skills for addressing emergencies\, disasters\, and other crises. Building on the success of its first full-semester course\, the Department introduced a 12-credit-hour Arts Emergency Management certificate in 2024 that addresses each phase of the emergency management cycle: mitigation\, preparedness\, response\, and recovery. The certificate's objectives include both theory and practice\, developing technical managerial approaches to crisis and response decision-making\, as well as\nscientific inquiry into why and how the arts sector can be prepared for extreme events\, and what relationships need to be built to do so.\n\n\nThe session provides two key perspectives: one that is scholarly\, connecting current and notable literature in emergency management and disaster science as a foundation in the arts emergency management pedagogy\; the other is programmatic\, outlining how this literature pragmatically fits into curricula across an undergraduate and graduate certificate program\, and how it can be structured to benefit the student\nexperience. \n\n\nIn addition to highlighting the framework\, the session will reveal findings from interviews with both graduate and undergraduate students who have taken AEM courses\, including their motivations for taking the courses and takeaways that have informed their professional careers.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:231\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Creative Resilience: How Arts-Based Practices Support Community Healing
DESCRIPTION:When disasters strike\, communities reach first for two things: safety and meaning. Traditional health education often focuses on physical preparedness—first aid\, sheltering\, communication plans—but creative practices are equally vital to recovery.\n\n\nMusic\, storytelling\, movement\, journaling\, and visual art offer culturally grounded strategies that help people process fear\, reconnect with one another\, and make sense of disruption. Drawing on my training as a Certified Health Education Specialist\, this session will explore how arts‐based activities function as evidence‐informed tools that support psychological recovery and reduce the long‐term impacts of trauma. Using examples from public health\, community arts\, and disaster response\, I will illustrate how integrating creative practices into preparedness education can help communities preserve cultural identity\, articulate collective memory\, and build adaptive coping mechanisms before a crisis occurs.\n\n\nParticipants will engage in hands‐on exercises demonstrating how arts activities can be embedded into emergency planning workshops\, shelter environments\, and community outreach. Attendees will leave with practical\, transferable strategies for using creative expression to enhance public health outcomes\, foster resilience\, and sustain cultural expression in times of crisis.\n\n\nTarget audience:\n• Health educators\, public health practitioners\, emergency managers\n• Arts and culture leaders (museums\, archives\, libraries\, arts councils)\n• Educators\, community organizers\, extension and library staff\n\n\nAccessibility and Inclusion\n• Activities follow trauma informed facilitation (opt in\, content warnings\, no forced disclosure).\n• Multiple modes (listen\, write\, draw\, speak) and low literacy options.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:330E\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Networking
DESCRIPTION:Gather with fellow attendees for&nbsp\;lunch\, networking\, and a special celebration honoring partnerships and leadership that have strengthened preparedness across the arts and culture field: the launch of the National Endowment for the Arts' new practical toolkit\, created through its Creative Forces Military Healing Arts Network\, and the 20th anniversary of the National Coalition for Arts Preparedness and Emergency Response (NCAPER).
CATEGORIES:NETWORKING & REFRESHMENT
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion #1: Arts in Disaster: A Conversation Around Tools for Community Connection and Wellbeing
DESCRIPTION:The arts are increasingly recognized for their role in disaster readiness\, response\, and recovery. Beyond economic recovery and tourism\, arts and cultural programming can support social and emotional wellbeing by bringing people together and offering ways to express experiences that are difficult to put into words. They can also create space to share stories\, honor loss\, and reconnect with cultural identity and community strengths. In recent years\, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has expanded its disaster work through community-based projects\, cross-sector partnerships\, and the development of a practical toolkit. Created with Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts\nNetwork\, the toolkit draws on over a decade of trauma-informed work with military-connected populations and the experience of community leaders across the field.\n\n\nThis roundtable discussion will introduce core concepts from the toolkit\, including the role of the arts across different phases of disaster\, principles for offering arts experiences that support connection and wellbeing\, and approaches to building partnerships across sectors. From there\, the session will center on shared discussion and exchange. Participants will explore how these tools can be adapted across different contexts and how the purpose and structure of arts engagement may shift over time in response to community needs. The conversation will also address how to communicate the value of this work to partners outside the arts sector and how to position arts and cultural efforts within broader community systems. Participants will share experiences\, challenges\, and questions related to working across sectors\, supporting communities in non-clinical ways\, and aligning arts-based efforts with existing services and resources. Examples from multiple communities\, including rural and disaster-affected regions\, will be used to ground the discussion and highlight different approaches in practice. \n\n\nTogether\, participants will reflect on how arts and cultural work can support connection\, cultural continuity\, and community wellbeing\, and consider how these ideas may apply within their own communities.
CATEGORIES:ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion #2: Retreating to Advance: CAReNet's artist-led approach to disaster relief and recovery
DESCRIPTION:In April\, a small\, thoughtful group of artists\, cultural workers\, organizers\, and cross-sector partners gathered in the beautiful backdrop of Estill County to imagine how artists can be embedded in preparedness\, mitigation\, and long-term resilience in partnership with local leaders\, technical experts\, and institutions. The idea was to support a response grounded in real relationships\, community\, and equitable access to resources. The agenda included sharing current mitigation and recovery efforts happening across the region\; exploring how creative practitioners can plug into or strengthen those efforts\; identifying gaps\, opportunities\, and partnership models\; and outlining what an ongoing artist-led emergency response network might look like. \n\n\nThat was the plan. But what really happened in those two days\, and what should happen next? The CAReNet team\, which operates under a decentralized leadership model\, will share successes\, challenges\, and next steps while bringing session participants into its vision of empowering artists in relief and recovery efforts to foster strong\, connected communities ready to face what comes next.
CATEGORIES:ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion #3: The Arts and Post Disaster Recovery Resource
DESCRIPTION:The Roundtable Discussion will consist of sharing the new Arts and Post Disaster Recovery Resource that was created by the UF CAM research lab. The resource includes art projects and interventions conducted by artists\, community leaders\, and art organizations to provide a creative outlet after a disaster has struck a community. During our session\, we will be guiding participants in the usage of the website and then collecting insight into its effectiveness through guided discussions. \n\n\nTo start\, we will present for 25 minutes the objective and vision behind the project\, discussing the need for a platform to share the art events and programs that have been implemented after a disaster has struck. We will then touch base on the various types of disasters that our research focused on and collected articles on\, including Acts of Violence\, Forces of Nature\, Extended Stressors\, and System Failures. Our team will then describe the themes that were designed to categorize the articles and to provide a clearer understanding and usage of the website.\n\n\nFor the next 25 minutes\, the participants will be invited to share their comments on their experience of the resource as\nprofessionals in various fields. Participants will complete a questionnaire to describe their positions in the field of arts and community development\, whether as individual artists\, art institutions\, or other stakeholders. Then they will share their experience in Disaster Response\, either as responders or those affected by a disaster. They will discuss in their tables the beliefs about the effects of disaster response. On a shared paper\, the tables will list the effects. They will then be invited to interact with the website to find an article that could assist in one or more of the listed disaster effects. Attendees will be involved in a guided activity to express their experience in the usage of the website as leaders in their respective roles.\n\n\nThe last 5-10 minutes will be used to share only a few of the responses of the participants. At the end\, we will collect any notes and survey results written by the participants to gather insight into the website’s effectiveness.
CATEGORIES:ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion #4: Local Arts Agencies: Essential Infrastructure for Disaster Readiness\, Response\, and Recovery
DESCRIPTION:Thousands of Local Arts Agencies (LAAs) exist across the United States\, supporting artists and cultural organizations while working at the intersection of public systems and community life. Americans for the Arts (AFTA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recognize that LAAs are uniquely positioned to contribute to disaster readiness\, response\, and recovery. These organizations bring trusted relationships and expertise in cultural planning\, grant-making\, facilities maintenance\, and healing arts programming that can be activated during any disaster. Yet this cultural infrastructure—rooted in relationships and community well-being—remains largely untapped in emergency management systems. There is a clear opportunity to address this gap in cross-sector partnerships by integrating LAAs as core collaborators in building more resilient communities.\n\n\nThis roundtable invites participants into a facilitated conversation with NEA and AFTA. The discussion will be grounded in the understanding that LAAs are critical to sustaining the systems of care\, creativity\, and belonging that\nhelp communities strengthen social connections and maintain identity—important but often overlooked elements in disaster work. Through peer exchange and guided dialogue\, participants will examine how LAAs build partnerships with emergency management offices and other sectors. The discussion will also explore how arts and cultural activity contribute to both economic and emotional recovery\, with examples of LAAs acting to stabilize creative economies\, reinvigorate community spaces\, and support collective healing through artist-led programming such as story cicrles and memorialization. Through guided dialogue\, participants will identify persistent barriers to effective cross-sector collaboration and develop solutions as a group. \n\n\nThe discussion will also consider how national leadership can further support this work\, and attendees will leave with practical frameworks and partnership strategies that can be adapted and applied within their own communities. By sharing resources\, best practices\, and firsthand experiences\, the roundtable will deepen understanding of how LAAs can be activated as essential care infrastructure before\, during\, and after disasters.
CATEGORIES:ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion #5: Prepared to Thrive: Building Performing Arts Resilience On and Off the Stage
DESCRIPTION:Performing artists and organizations are navigating an increasingly complex landscape—balancing creative work with\nfinancial uncertainty\, leadership transitions\, and unexpected disruptions/disasters. These disruptions extend beyond natural or man-made disasters and include anything that interrupts an artist’s or organization’s ability to function\,&nbsp\; create\, and sustain their work.\n\n\nPrepared to Thrive: Building Performing Arts Resilience On and Off the Stage is a facilitated roundtable designed to create space for honest dialogue\, shared experiences\, and collective problem-solving across disciplines. Grounded in national best practices from the Performing Arts Readiness (PAR) initiative and informed by Carol Foster’s extensive field experience\, this session reframes emergency preparedness as a tool for resilience\, sustainability\, and cultural preservation.\n\n\nParticipants will actively contribute to the conversation—sharing challenges\, strategies\, and lessons learned—while gaining practical tools to strengthen preparedness and continuity across a range of performing arts practices.
CATEGORIES:ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion #6: Connection as Prevention: Building Arts\, Health\, and Community Response Networks After Disaster
DESCRIPTION:In the aftermath of the 2023 Lahaina wildfires\, communities across Maui faced profound disruption\, including displacement\, grief\, cultural loss\, and increased strain on families and support systems. In response\, artists\, educators\, cultural practitioners\, and health leaders mobilized to restore connection\; not only as a form of healing\, but as a strategy for prevention. This roundtable introduces “Connection as Prevention\,” a framework emerging from cross-sector partnerships among AHAS (Archive for Health\, Arts & Spirit)\, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health\, National Coalition for Arts Preparedness and Emergency Response\, and the Hawaiʻi Arts & Health Network.\n\n\nGrounded in active work on Maui\, this session positions arts-based practice as disaster response infrastructure and explores how connection\, built through creative practice\, functions as a protective factor in both disaster recovery and child abuse prevention. Rather than a formal presentation\, this session will facilitate a structured\, participatory dialogue that invites attendees to engage with:\n- Case examples from Lahaina\, including school-based and community-based creative interventions\n- Strategies for partnering with public health systems\, including work with the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health\n- Approaches to building regional and national arts response networks\, including collaboration with NCAPER\n- The role of Indigenous-centered and multi-racial leadership in shaping equitable and culturally grounded response systems\n\n\nParticipants will be guided through small-group discussion and collective sensemaking to explore how these ideas translate to their own communities and contexts. This roundtable is designed to:\n- Surface shared challenges and opportunities across regions\n- Exchange strategies for integrating arts into disaster response and prevention systems\n- Build connections among practitioners working at the intersection of arts\, health\, and emergency response\n- Contribute to the growing field of arts-based disaster preparedness and recovery\n\n\nBy centering dialogue\, relationship-building\, and shared learning\, this session advances the conference call to reimagine readiness\, not only as a set of protocols\, but as a network of relationships that can be activated in times of crisis.
CATEGORIES:ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:National Efforts\, Local Impact: Insights from the NEA and Creative Forces Arts in Disaster Programming 
DESCRIPTION:The arts are increasingly recognized for their role in supporting disaster readiness\, response and recovery. Beyond their contributions to economic recovery and tourism\, arts and cultural programming can also play a meaningful role in communities’ social and emotional recovery. The arts can bring people together\, restore a sense of normalcy\, and offer offer ways to express experiences that may be difficult to put into words. They can also create space to share stories\, honor loss\, and reconnect with cultural identity and community strengths. In recent years\, the National Endowment for the Arts has broadened its focus on disaster programming. This work includes community-based projects\, cross-sector collaboration with state and local partners\, and the development of a toolkit designed to help artists\, cultural organizations\, community leaders\, and military-connected organizations integrate the arts into their communities’ cultural\, social\, and emotional recovery. Much of this work has occurred in partnership with Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network\, which brings expertise from over a decade of trauma-informed work with military connection populations\, both in healthcare and in the broader communities where they live. \n\n\nThis panel will share insights from these initiatives\, including Creative Forces’ disaster pilot\, which is being explored in multiple communities. The discussion will highlight work from the Appalachian region\, and particularly Western North Carolina\, to illustrate how these approaches supported communities following Hurricane Helene. Panelists will discuss lessons learned from implementing arts and culture initiatives in rural disaster-affected communities\, including building local partnerships\, supporting cultural continuity\, and creating spaces for connection and collective meaning-making. Panelists will also discuss key lessons learned\, including the importance of building relationships across sectors\, working in ways that align with local culture and strengths\, and adapting approaches to community contexts. The discussion will highlight how creative engagement can complement existing disaster efforts and contribute to more connected\, responsive systems of care. Together\, this panel will explore how arts and culture can move from being viewed as an optional addition to disaster work toward being recognized as an integral part of how communities support one another through disruption and change.
CATEGORIES:PANEL DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Brockman Senate Chamber (2nd floor)\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Cultural Emergency Response Map: Safeguarding Puerto Rico’s Heritage
DESCRIPTION:The Alianza Cultural para Emergencias de Puerto Rico (Alliance for Cultural Emergencies in Puerto Rico) (ACEPR) was established in 2019 to assist cultural\, LAM\, and arts organizations throughout the Archipelago in minimizing damage to their collections during natural hazards or man-made disasters. Founded in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and María in 2017\, ACEPR has utilized the lessons learned from these events to foster a more resilient community. Our focus is on prevention through educational programs and initiatives that help safeguard our cultural heritage.\n\n\nOne of the challenges in the response process for cultural organizations in 2017 was the lack of a consolidated database of contact information that would enable responders to reach the affected cultural community more quickly. This led local cultural organizations and personnel\, in collaboration with FEMA\, to develop a list that could be used throughout the recovery process. Thanks to technology\, we have learned other ways to use contact information effectively not only in an emergency scenario\, but also as a prevention and mitigation strategy. With support from the Mellon Foundation\, in 2025\, ACEPR launched the “Cultural Mapping for Emergency Response” project as part of its Collections in Response initiative. Its main goal is to develop a collaborative network to increase the visibility of Puerto Rico’s cultural heritage and support its protection before\, during\, and after emergencies. Using a georeferenced database\, the mapping initiative enables the identification of organizations and collections\, improves communication with custodial institutions\, and facilitates quick\, effective coordination\, both before and during prevention\, response\, and recovery efforts.\n\n\nIn the presentation\, we will discuss how technology (through ArcGIS and Storymaps) is used to strengthen our capacity to prepare for and respond to uncertainty\, ensuring the sustainability of our cultural heritage. We will present our data\ncompilation strategy\, the educational tool created to engage more organizations\, and the next phases of the project that include: visualizing active or vulnerable heritage zones\, connecting similar institutions\, planning for collection relocations affected by climate change\, and building micro-networks that strengthen community resilience and support during difficult times.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:231\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:UK Robinson Center: To Rebuild>To Refocus>To Recover
DESCRIPTION:From July 25th through July 30th\, 2022\, multiple complex thunderstorms developed south of I-64 and not only brought\nrecord-setting rain and deadly flash flooding but also devastating river flooding to Eastern Kentucky and Central\nAppalachia. The Robinson Center was not exempt from the devastation. Experiencing extensive damage to multiple\nbuildings and total decimation of others\, facility staff relocated the Administration and Business Offices to a makeshift area in the Auditorium and restored normalcy as was possible professionally while trying to restore normalcy in their personal lives as well.\n\n\nDespite these challenges\, one thing remained constant. The University's Land-grant Mission continued to emphasize\nteaching\, research\, and engagement to promote the well-being and success of the leaders in the next generation. Together\, we learned\; we discovered\; and we engaged every single day\, and this informational session will highlight the initial aftermath and impact of this historic flooding event on a facility that has been around since 1923.\n\n\nParticipants will: visualize how stakeholders have strategically rebuilt the facility to prepare for the next one hundred years of service. Experience firsthand accounts for the initial devastation to iconic structures\, equipment\, and destroyed research. Gain a better understanding of how stakeholders have rebuilt this research station to better promote UK's Land-grant Mission more efficiently and in a broader spectrum. Recognize when we made it past the trauma of the initial event to the healing aspect. More importantly\, know when our focus became more about the present\, the future\, and no longer about the past. Our future is bright\, and we want to share it with you.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:330E\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:After the Storm: Storybooks and other Arts-Based Practices for Children’s Disaster Readiness and Recovery
DESCRIPTION:Children are particularly vulnerable in disasters\, not only from direct exposure\, but from watching their caregivers stressed and struggling. They often react by acting out\, or by experiencing increased anxiety\, depression\, or post-traumatic stress. What helps most is a caregiver who feels equipped to stay calm\, keep communication open\, and help children identify and express their feelings.\n\n\nThis workshop presents an arts-based curriculum developed through Cooperative Extension that gives caregivers these tools. The curriculum uses The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm\, a children's storybook by LeVar Burton and Susan Bernado\, to open conversations between adults and young children about disasters\, emotions\, and community support. Research shows that storytelling can reduce anxiety\, improve self-concept\, and strengthen parent-child communication by creating imaginative spaces for emotional expression. The curriculum also includes movement and visual art activities\, grounded in research on expressive arts as non-verbal outlets for children processing complex feelings\, and guided reflection on who children can turn to for help\, which is also a crucial protective factor against isolation and anxiety.\n\n\nAs currently designed\, the delivery model works through Cooperative Extension. County Extension Agents and volunteer Homemakers experience the curriculum themselves first\, then lead hands-on training with caregivers and parents of early elementary-aged children. The goal is not for Extension agents to work directly with kids\, but to build caregiver confidence and capacity by giving parents the book\, the questions\, and the activities to use at home with the kids they are raising. Workshop participants will experience the curriculum firsthand\, reading and discussing The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm together\, trying the Buzzy Bees visual art activity\, and moving through several of the movement exercises that are part of the curriculum. Participants will also examine how the delivery model was built and why. We will end by exploring together how arts-based organizations fit in a model like this\, and what their role might be as partners in community-based disaster readiness.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:330D\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:EmComm for All: Basic radio communication for resilient communities
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is designed to equip participants with foundational knowledge and practical skills needed to communicate effectively when internet-based communication is unavailable. For individuals\, communities\, and organizations interested in improving operational resilience\, this session provides a well-rounded introduction to essential emergency communication (“EmComm”) concepts and tools.\n\n\nThe workshop begins with an overview of radio physics\, explaining how radio waves propagate\, how frequency affects\nrange and performance\, and how environmental factors such as terrain and weather influence signal strength. Participants will gain a clear understanding of why certain communication methods succeed or fail under different conditions. An exploratory tour of the radio spectrum will also familiarize participants with how different parts of it are utilized and regulated.\n\n\nParticipants will be introduced to the various radio services available to them\, including amateur radio (“ham radio”)\, GMRS\, FRS\, MURS\, CB\, ISM\, and commercial radio. Participants will learn about the equipment used in emergency settings\, including handheld radios\, mobile units\, base station units\, repeaters\, antennas\, power sources\, etc. Basic operation techniques and radio etiquette will also be explained.\n\n\nBuilding on this foundational knowledge\, the session then explores emergency communication planning. Attendees will\nlearn how to implement simple but effective communication plans (such as PACE plans) for families\, teams\, or entire\ncommunities. By the end of the workshop\, participants will know which licenses and equipment they need to acquire and they will have the confidence to begin building their own emergency\ncommunication plans.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:330C\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Lost in Translation: When Arts Administrators and Emergency Managers Speak Different Languages
DESCRIPTION:Arts and cultural organizations are increasingly recognized as important partners in disaster preparedness\, response\, and recovery. However\, collaboration between arts administrators and emergency managers often reveals a fundamental challenge: the two sectors frequently speak different professional “languages.” Terminology\, planning frameworks\, organizational structures\, and even assumptions about risk and decision-making can vary widely\, creating barriers to effective collaboration during emergencies.\n\n\nThis presentation explores how these communication gaps emerge and how they can be addressed. Drawing on examples from arts organizations\, emergency management frameworks\, and educational settings\, the session examines common areas of misunderstanding—such as differences in planning terminology\, expectations around command structures\, and approaches to community engagement. While emergency management often relies on standardized systems and protocols\, arts organizations tend to operate through more flexible\, creative\, and relationship-based models. These differences can lead to confusion\, missed opportunities for coordination\, and underutilization of the cultural sector’s capacity in disaster planning. \n\n\nParticipants will gain practical strategies for bridging these divides\, including translating key emergency management concepts for arts organizations\, building cross-sector partnerships\, and developing shared planning tools such as Business Continuity Plans. By recognizing and addressing these communication barriers\, arts leaders and emergency managers can work more effectively together to strengthen preparedness\, support community recovery\, and build more resilient cultural ecosystems.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:375\, Gatton Student Center
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/a051f1ea6257b6cacb546742d6feb5b6
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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Links from Appalachian Water Humanities Cooperative
DESCRIPTION:Water has shaped and influenced the natural and cultural landscapes of Appalachia\, especially as powerful sites of historical significance\, cultural and collective memory\, place-based identity\, and everyday community life. \n\n\nThis presentation aims to share insights and links created through the synergistic exchange of experiences and interests around water in Appalachia. The Appalachian Water Humanities Collaborative (AWHC) is an interdisciplinary group of scholars\, faculty\, and students at the University of Kentucky that began in 2025 to explore the role and relationships to water in Appalachian humanities research and scholarship. Bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines\, spanning environmental studies\, anthropology\, history\, sociology\, and other – to participate in deep conversations about how water influences communities and individuals across social\, cultural\, economic\, and political dynamics. Holding and creating space for all scholars to engage in discussions\, shared readings\, and members discover commonalities\, connections\, and ways in which water shapes historical experiences and contemporary challenges in Appalachian communities.\n\n\nThis presentation will share some of the preliminary themes that have surfaced from the first iteration of the Collaborative\, specifically the role of building interdisciplinary ecosystems around the concept of water and waterways\, the ways water/waterways anchor place-based identity and collective memory\, and the ways in which people and communities relate to water. Water is often a focal point in the vernacular and in stories\, folklore\, and traditions from the region. Water can be thought of as friend or foe\, companion or adversary\, complicating how people engage with it\, especially as extreme weather and disasters are becoming more frequent and severe. The AWHC succeeded in bringing together diverse scholars to foster conversations and brainstorm ideas\, opportunities\, and potential solutions to better understand our human and more-than-human relationships with water and the environment. \n\n\nThis presentation will highlight how an interdisciplinary humanities framework can enhance Appalachian studies and scholarship while continuing to foster conversations between academic research and local community knowledge.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:330E\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:Networking & Refreshment Break
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:NETWORKING & REFRESHMENT
LOCATION:330AB\, Gatton Student Center
SEQUENCE:0
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SUMMARY:From Forecast to First Response: An All‑Hazards Panel for Arts and Culture with a Meteorologist and an Emergency Manager
DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together expertise from the National Weather Service and Kentucky Emergency Management to help arts and cultural leaders better understand how weather warnings are developed and communicated\, and the ways that arts and cultural organizations can best engage with first responders before\, during\, and after an emergency. \n\nJane Marie Wix\, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson\, Kentucky\, will provide an overview of how weather forecasts and warnings are developed\, communicated\, and interpreted. She will explain what different warning types mean for situational awareness and decision‐making across hazards such as tornadoes\, flooding\, and severe storms. She will also share accessible tools that artists and cultural managers can use to translate technical weather information into timely\, protective actions. \n\nJason York\, Area 7 Regional Response Manager with Kentucky Emergency Management\, will discuss how emergency management operates across the Commonwealth using NIMS as a common framework. He will explain who first responders are\, how command and coordination structures function\, and why shared terminology and advance relationship‐building are critical during emergencies. Jason will outline what emergency managers and first responders need to know about arts and cultural organizations—such as priority assets\, building layouts\, and collections risks—as well as what cultural leaders should understand about emergency management roles\, protocols\, and expectations.\n\nFollowing brief presentations\, the panel will shift to a moderated discussion of real‐world experiences and case examples\, highlighting lessons learned and practical takeaways for cultural organizations. Moderated by network administrators for the Kentucky Heritage Emergency Response Network (KHERN)\, the conversation will focus on how arts and cultural organizations can move from reactive response to proactive preparedness by aligning their planning efforts with all‐hazards and NIMS principles.
CATEGORIES:PANEL DISCUSSION
LOCATION:Brockman Senate Chamber (2nd floor)\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/34bab756be3d39f2b02fd1dbd89ce458
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DTSTAMP:20260727T012409Z
DTSTART:20260925T190000Z
DTEND:20260925T193000Z
SUMMARY:From Fly Loft to Rescue Loft: Using Theatre Spaces for High Rescue Training
DESCRIPTION:High-angle rescue is one of the most technically demanding disciplines in emergency response\, requiring precision\,\nadvanced rigging systems\, and training environments that simulate real-world vertical challenges. While fire and rescue teams often rely on specialized facilities\, theaters—equipped with complex rigging systems\, fly systems\, and overhead structures—represent an underutilized training resource.\n\n\nThis research explores the emerging partnership between performing arts venues and technical rescue teams to support high-angle rescue training in theaters. Drawing on industry standards from both entertainment rigging and technical rescue fields\, this research addresses what each stakeholder must understand before engaging in this work.\nFor venue managers\, the session outlines key considerations around safety\, liability\, and operational readiness\, including the need for documented emergency procedures and safe working conditions to reduce risk exposure. For rigging professionals\, the discussion focuses on communicating system limitations\, including working load limits\, inspection requirements\, and the risks of applying theatrical rigging systems beyond their intended use without proper engineering oversight. For fire and rescue teams\, the session raises critical questions about site-specific hazards\, anchor selection\, and adapting NFPA-aligned rope rescue practices to unconventional environments such as\ntheaters.\n\n\nRather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all model\, this session is structured around the questions that must be asked and answered to build safe\, effective partnerships. Questions include what structural information must be shared? How do load ratings translate between entertainment and rescue contexts? What training modifications are required in a theater setting? What liability and insurance considerations must be negotiated? And how do all parties define “safe use” when repurposing theatrical infrastructure?\n\n\nAttendees will leave with a practical framework for initiating cross-sector collaboration\, a checklist of critical questions for each stakeholder group\, and a clearer understanding of how theaters can responsibly support high-angle rescue training. At its core\, this session positions theaters not just as performance spaces\, but as potential partners in public safety training if approached with the right expertise\, communication\, and shared commitment to safety. This research was conducted with theater rigging/supplier representatives and a local fire rescue team chief.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:330C\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/e7fc6c79056b8a95cc3efd722f6c692f
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DTSTAMP:20260727T012409Z
DTSTART:20260925T190000Z
DTEND:20260925T193000Z
SUMMARY:The Late Recovery Gap: Make-Break-Transform\, an Arts-Based Framework for Community-Led Recovery
DESCRIPTION:When disaster strikes\, communities lose more than infrastructure. They also lose agency. \n\n\nMake-Break-Transform is a creative resilience framework developed over 15 years of arts-based practice across the United States and Central America\, now proposed as a deployment model for the late recovery phase\, when outside support has largely withdrawn. \n\n\nThe process is simple: participants make something meaningful\, break or alter it\, and transform the pieces into something new. Destruction becomes the raw material for regeneration. The framework can be adapted to any arts process and works with children\, teens\, and adults in trauma and non-trauma settings. Volunteers\, artists\, teachers\, churches\, and local NGOs have been trained to facilitate it. In Guatemala\, local partners now independently run camps\, host retreats\, and expand into new communities\, a multiplication model built through sustained\, trust-based partnership.\n\n\nApplying this framework in disaster recovery contexts raises a critical question: is the break phase appropriate for communities that have already experienced involuntary destruction? This session argues yes\, when done with care. One thing disaster can take from people is agency. Make-Break-Transform returns it. The break is chosen\, facilitated\, and witnessed. That distinction makes the framework relevant to recovery work and demands trauma-informed facilitation. Drawing on a cross-cultural partnership approach\, the deployment model enters communities alongside local arts organizations\, offers local-informed programming\, trains local facilitators\, and shepherds a collective community project before exiting with capacity for continued\, community-led work.&nbsp\;While this application is aspirational rather than implemented\, the underlying framework and multiplication model are well-tested.\n\n\nThis session invites practitioners and emergency management professionals to examine Make-Break-Transform as a transferable model that treats communities not as recipients of healing but as agents of their own transformation.\nAttendees will leave with a working understanding of the framework\, its facilitation principles\, and a proposed deployment model ready for adaptation in their own contexts.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:330E\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/7c01e828cf613dc0cec251d8f85654f3
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DTSTAMP:20260727T012409Z
DTSTART:20260925T190000Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Disasters: Movement workshop for disaster storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Art has the unique strength of bringing firsthand experiences into disaster preparedness and response work. Mainstream emergency preparedness education\, disaster reporting\, and support for survivors tends to be fact-based\, dry and didactic\, hiding the human experiences and costs of these disasters. But how do we build collective narratives that tell a more complete story? What participatory story-building tools do we have as artists? How do we build shared stories in diverse communities with very different lived experiences? Join our group of artists to experience collective storytelling tools developed during our pre-conference creative practice lab.\n\n\nThis session will present tools developed in the pre-conference lab by artists\, disaster responders and emergency medical providers. We will explore movement and storytelling methodologies from a variety of pedagogies\, discuss our\ndevelopment process\, and try out some strategies together. Join us as we present new ideas\, and some tried-and-true strategies by Faultline Ensemble\, our ensemble of artists\, health workers and first responders.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:330D\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/5aa942ada77895639b3caaa97f94ab6c
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DTSTAMP:20260727T012409Z
DTSTART:20260925T190000Z
DTEND:20260925T200000Z
SUMMARY:In the Wake of Disasters: Defining and Mitigating Traumas
DESCRIPTION:In the face of pervasive disasters\, both natural and socially constructed\, people are looking for trauma-informed practices that they can use in their teaching\, research\, and everyday lives.\n\n\nThis workshop will teach one method that museum curator Rachel Hooper developed in conversation with an interdisciplinary group of humanities researchers at Indiana University’s Institute for Advanced Study. Participants will learn various definitions of trauma\, practice identifying vulnerabilities in individuals and communities\, and define clear strategies for mitigating some of the effects of disasters. These techniques are based in the arts\, humanities\, and social sciences but have broad implications for anyone who has been profoundly harmed or works closely with impacted communities. This is a people-centered method of preparedness that can be employed at any stage of a catastrophe.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:375\, Gatton Student Center
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/277c9117063c9dc7256119cd307340f1
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DTSTAMP:20260727T012409Z
DTSTART:20260925T193000Z
DTEND:20260925T200000Z
SUMMARY:Case Study: A Cultural Treasure Engulfed in Flames
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 fire that destroyed the Masonic Temple in Zanesville\, Ohio\, serves as a harrowing case study for arts administrators\, urban planners\, and community leaders. Built in 1902 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places\, the Temple had evolved from a fraternal lodge into a vital artist center. It housed many studios where local creatives worked and sold their art. In a single night\, a fire sparked by a poorly extinguished cigarette reduced this century of history to ash\, displacing an entire creative ecosystem.\n\n\nThis session moves beyond the tragedy to explore the mechanics of Arts Emergency Management as a tool for both\nprotection and healing. The loss in was not just architectural\; it was the destruction of a collaborative spirit. In the aftermath\, the community shifted from a unified "we" to a fractured "me not them" as artists scrambled for individual studio spaces across the county.\n\n\nBy analyzing the fire\, this case study addresses three critical pillars of disaster resilience: proactive risk mitigation\, digital stewardship and documentation\, and rebuilding the social infrastructure. The first pillar examines how simple fire safety protocols and other emergency management techniques can be in place in case there is a fire\, which indeed occurred\, and how "living history" buildings require specialized emergency management plans that balance historic preservation with modern safety standards.\n\n\nOne of the most profound losses was the absolute disappearance of years of work. The talk explores how documenting art digitally acts as a form of cultural stewardship\, ensuring an artist’s legacy survives even if their physical canvas does not. Finally\, we discuss how emergency management can honor the past by formalizing the bonds of the community. By creating shared safety compacts and mutual aid agreements\, arts organizations can transform the memory of the Masonic Temple into a pathway for a more resilient\, connected\, and protected future.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:330E\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/5ba7525b502447d0b59115c1492e2270
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DTSTAMP:20260727T012409Z
DTSTART:20260925T193000Z
DTEND:20260925T200000Z
SUMMARY:Stronger Together: Forging a Rural Arts and Culture Disaster Resilience Network in Vermont
DESCRIPTION:Vermont's arts and cultural sector\, including artists\, museums\, historical societies\, libraries\, archives\, and performing arts organizations\, is as vulnerable to disaster as any other part of the state's infrastructure. For years\, this sector lacked a coordinated voice in emergency preparedness and response.\n\n\nThis session traces the development of the Vermont Arts and Culture Disaster and Resilience Network (VACDaRN)\, a\nstatewide initiative built to change that. VACDaRN grew out of a collaborative organizing process in 2018–2019\, bringing together artists\, archivists\, conservators\, emergency managers\, historic preservationists\, humanities organizations\, and librarians to define shared priorities and lay the groundwork for a functional mutual aid network. \nWhat emerged was a partnership anchored by the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont State Archives and Records\nAdministration\, and guided by a broad steering committee that reflects the full diversity of the state's cultural community.\n\n\nSince its founding\, VACDaRN has been tested by real disasters. The network mobilized resources in response to the COVID-19 pandemic\, and again following major flooding events in both 2023 and 2024\; events that caused significant damage to cultural institutions and individual artists across the state. Each crisis has sharpened the network's tools\, deepened its partnerships\, and clarified what a small\, rural state needs to protect its cultural heritage. This session will offer an honest look at the challenges and opportunities of building disaster resilience infrastructure in a rural context where geography\, limited resources\, and a dispersed population provide challenges. We will share what has worked\, what hasn't\, and what we are still figuring out.\n\n\nAttendees will leave with practical insights applicable to their own communities and regions\, whether urban or rural\, large-scale or grassroots.\n\n\nhttps://vacdarn.org/
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:231\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/9513954523fdaeb52397fd21d87b811b
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DTSTAMP:20260727T012409Z
DTSTART:20260925T193000Z
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SUMMARY:The Alianza Cultural para Emergencias de Puerto Rico: Building Connections and Resilience through Educational Innitiatives
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, we will discuss how the Alianza Cultural para Emergencias de Puerto Rico has designed and\nImplemented educational programs and the impact they have had on building our local response network.\n\n\nFollowing Hurricane Maria's impact in 2017\, several challenges arose\, among them: the lack of a local network to respond to emergencies involving heritage collections. In response\, the Alianza Cultural para Emergencias de Puerto Rico (Alliance for Cultural Emergencies in Puerto Rico) (ACEPR) was established in 2019 by a diverse group of professionals from various institutions and private practices\, all trained in emergency preparedness and response. Our goal is to assist cultural\, LAM\, and arts organizations throughout the Archipelago in minimizing damage to their collections during natural hazards or man-made disasters. We believe our value lies not only in building capacity\nbut also in doing so in our own language\, as there is a notable lack of emergency preparedness and response resources available in Spanish. Additionally\, we focus on the unique characteristics of Puerto Rico and resource availability in our communities.\n\n\nThroughout the years\, we have implemented various initiatives\, including workshops\, social media educational campaigns\, and hands-on projects. These efforts emphasize our long-term goal of fostering connections among colleagues to build a local network ready to support one another when needed. Our approach to achieving this goal has been through training on emergency management and preservation practices using the train-the-trainer method. Since 2020 we have impacted over 900 people (practitioners and students) and offered over 30 unique workshops (including multiple series) on topics such as emergency preparedness\, response\, and recovery for cultural heritage collections\, risk assessment\, climate change impacts\, the development and implementation of emergency plans\, salvage and stabilization of damaged collections\, and collection documentation\, digitization\, and inventory practices. \nIn 2025 we launched our most recent initiative\, “Digital documentation during cultural emergencies.” Using the KoboToolbox community free plan\, we trained over 72 professionals across the Archipélago to build our first mutual aid network\, which can be deployed in a local emergency.\n\n\nIn this presentation\, we will discuss how we have designed and implemented our educational program and the impact it has had in Puerto Rico. We will present examples of successful training programs and outline our next steps in building our local network through education activities.
CATEGORIES:PRESENTATION
LOCATION:330C\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/56f28d7827a8ba9d4a976c7ea05392aa
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DTSTAMP:20260727T012409Z
DTSTART:20260925T201500Z
DTEND:20260925T210000Z
SUMMARY:Closing Plenary Performance: "Down by the River"
DESCRIPTION:A performance of an original work for flute ensemble and narration by Julie Hobbs\, with a recitation of the poem "Aerial View of Catastrophic Flooding" by Appalachian poet Pauletta Hansel.\n\n\nThis original composition\, written for flute ensemble and narration\, is based on the Appalachian folk tune "Down by the\nRiver to Pray." The music serves as a backdrop for Pauletta Hansel's powerful poem "Aerial View of Catastrophic Flooding\," a work inspired by Facebook posts from survivors of the 2022 Eastern Kentucky floods\, which include words of despair\, calls for help\, and a message of hope. The work premiered in August 2025 at the National Flute Association Convention\, eliciting a remarkably powerful audience response that demonstrates how the arts can communicate\, memorialize\, and heal. In addition to a live performance\, the session includes a discussion about the origins and history of the project\n\n\n
CATEGORIES:PERFORMANCE
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/e034d6e55cda57e17e7de35cd0e1934d
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DTSTAMP:20260727T012409Z
DTSTART:20260925T210000Z
DTEND:20260925T223000Z
SUMMARY:Closing Reception
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CATEGORIES:NETWORKING & REFRESHMENT
LOCATION:Ballroom A\, Gatton Student Center\, 160 Ave of Champions\, Lexington\, KY 40508
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://adcp.sched.com/event/4f54bc6644d7eb1f8c170f6c031f1449
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